Monday, 20 April 2026

All The Trees Hate You - comics from Dublin & Preston


Two days in Dublin followed by a day in Preston. April has certainly seen me put in the miles and no mistake. 


Killinarden in Tallaght is a school I’ve been to before, and a joy to return to. The odd divided cover you can see was a result of a problem I had with the photocopier. I could not make it reduce A3 to A4 no matter what I tried. It kept copying just a segment of the page onto the wrong size of paper. I pride myself on knowing most places’ copiers better than they do, so I hate being thwarted like that. The morning group, on the right, took home a cover that was a gappy patchwork effort. So for the afternoon session I designed a cover that could be copied on the multi-up sheet feeder setting, which worked fine. Of course, in the afternoon the copier worked fine so we had an unnecessary odd cover design that only I will ever comprehend. 


Marino college in Dublin is one I hadn’t been to in years. Two great classes latter there come up with a couple of my favourite titles in ages. 


Preston Muslim Girls School was another return booking, and another occasion (following Rickmansworth) when I’d agreed to three classes in a day. I’m a fool to myself, but I managed it. And check out Granny Got Hit By A Bazooka cropping up as a title for the second time in a week. Turns out it’s a song, made popular on TikTok. The image I used this time is the one that goes with the song itself, an Ai slop effort ironically redrawn by hand by me. 


The celebrities these seven groups chose to appear in my demonstration strip were Michael Jackson (twice), Albert Einstein, Ronaldo, Justin Bieber, Kylie Jenner, and Drake.

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Sunday, 19 April 2026

A Living Megalodon In My Bath - comics by kids


Comics by kids from Rickmansworth, Edgware, Grantham in a busy month for classes. 


Rickmansworth lined up three classes in a day and unlike my last visit we did them on a flat fee. That turned out to be the right call. Last time I’d done a door split, the tickets were quite high priced, and we sold out, so I figured I’d do better than usual. Then I found out, after the venue’s deductions, I’d come off worse than my usual flat fee. This time we arranged three classes including an evening event. How did that go..?


Rickmansworth morning and afternoon classes filled up nicely. I even sold books afterwards. The evening class, starting at 7.30, had four punters. Dodged a bullet on the door split there. 


Edgware Library had two good groups, two good classes. Bought very few books. I know I shouldn’t focus on that sort of thing, but sometimes you get your hopes up. Check out that title, My Gran Got Shot By A Bazooka. How original I thought. See next blog for how wrong I can be. 
 

Grantham Guildhall was a lovely pair of classes. And I got to meet my old mate Declan at lunchtime. And the parents bought lots of books. Thankyou Grantham, you were worth the drive. 

The celebrities these seven groups chose to appear in my demonstration strip were Ronaldo, Claudia Winkleman , Donald Trump, Albert Einstein, Michael Jackson, Steve Harvey (American comedian I'd vaguely heard of) and Jeff Bezos.

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